Private Performance

Hour to hour, day to day,
we are the lead actor in our own personal play.
We write our words, we choreograph our dance,
we perform through the drama, the laughter, the chance.

We play to a crowd of friends and kin,
they think they know the person that lives within.
We don't let them see the turmoil or the pain,
the hopes, the heartaches, the plans abandoned in vain.

That is a private performance.